FREEguide/ Forget About Success?
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Weekly Leadership Insights
LEADer/ Taking Three Steps
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Ubud, Indonesia - 9 April 2015. Meet Soemantri Widagdo, a leading innovation scientist, international art curator, and social change maker, affectionately known as Pak Tri. What steps does he recommend aspiring leaders in Asia to take? And in doing so, what strengths can they build on, and what leadership roles can they explore?
Read MoreLEADer/ Seeding Healthy Change
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Ubud, Indonesia - 28 February 2015. Meet Maria Loretha, a champion leader for healthy change in Eastern Indonesia. The eldest of five children, Maria grew up in West Kalimantan, home of Indonesia’s Dayak people. How did she become a community leader for nutritious local foods across her country?
Read MoreLEADer/ Tapping Renewable Energy
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Manila, Philippines - 9 February 2015. Meet Aldrin Calderon, a graduate of the Leadership for Sustainability course at the United Nations University in Tokyo last October. How is he applying his experience in the leadership course to make a difference for rural communities in his country?
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FEEDback/ Your Questions Answered
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Manila, Philippines - 24 January 2015. How will you make the impossible happen this year? What do you want to know? Ask your question and get an answer.
Read MoreACTivity/ Start Developing Your Personal Power
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Manila, Philippines - 8 January 2015. Your personal power. What do you need it for in 2015? What leadership mastery do you need most to build it? Get going to find out. What happens if you don't build your personal power? Start learning now.
Read MoreACTivity/ What Is Personal Power For You?
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Ubud, Indonesia - 5 January 2015. Personal Power is the ability to change the direction of your life. I like this definition. What kind of personal power are you looking to develop in 2015? What is your definition of personal power? This is an ACTivity to share in. I am waiting for your feedback.
Read MoreINsight/ Map Or Compass?
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Ubud, Indonesia - 1 January 2015. How will you start your new year? Have you prepared your set of new-year resolutions with enthusiasm to make the best of your opportunities and improve on the last year? Do you know where you are going and what you have to change in order to get there? Have you mapped your journey to success? What did you do with your resolutions last year? Could you see them through to success? Or did you loose sight of them a few weeks later as a mountain of work and daily chores took their toll and you felt unable to change your habits for more effective ones? What happened with your map? There is a better and easier way to change, with more fun to be experienced along the way.
Read MoreOUTreach/ Where Are You Going?
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Ubud, Indonesia - 31 December 2014. The year has flown by, and many new friends from Asia and the Pacific, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Australia and Europe have discovered the road for aspiring leaders to become confident and influential change makers, starting right where they are. What backgrounds did they come from? What thrill did they get from investing in a leadership course? When it comes to developing your leadership, where you are going is much more important than where you come from.
Read MoreSURVEYing/ Leader Roles And Masteries
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Ubud, Indonesia - 30 December 2014. Haven’t taken the survey yet? Click here to contribute your voice as an aspiring leader and join the discussion. And sign up here to get news about leadership development programs coming your way. Now for an update on the results so far. What are the most popular leadership roles? And where do aspiring leaders think they need to improve most?
Read MoreLEADer/ How Do You Use Your Break?
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Siem Reap, Cambodia - 10 December 2014. I spotted him in the bookstore at Siem Reap's airport as I was leaving Cambodia after attending the 10th Angkor Photo Festival. Actually, I heard his voice before I saw him. Someone was reading out loud from a book. Not really loud, but audible. This is how I met Mr. Sok Chanrithy, a check-in staff at the airport. What was he doing? And how did he impress me as a young leader?
Read MoreOUTreach/ Ready to Learn and Lead?
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Manila, Philippines - 13 December. Leadership developers from businesses in the Philippines and Thailand came together in the L2 Learn to Lead event hosted by Life Coach Clarissa Calingasan and co-sponsored by TransformationFirst.Asia Pte Ltd and Natalie in the Light Inc. The participants kicked off by exploring how good leaders ask great questions, guided by John Maxwell. Coach Clarissa wrapped up by sharing how she proves each year that impossible is just a word, and Coach Wouter highlighted what may well be the most important question to ask in leadership development.
Read MoreKEYnote/ Developing Personal Power at Trisakti
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Jakarta, Indonesia - 27 November 2014. More than 70 environmental engineering students at Indonesia's Trisakti University in Jakarta joined Coach Wouter of TransformationFirst.Asia Pte Ltd in a conversation how to increase their personal power to become an influential change maker. The session was organized by Lecturer Ariani Dwi Astuti and led by Vice-Dean Hernani Yulinawati. What did they discuss?
Read MoreOUTreach/ Calling In For Water
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Jakarta, Indonesia - 26 November 2014. Citizens from across Indonesia called in to ask how the new government will help them solve their urgent water security issues. The live interview was hosted by Indonesia's RRI 3 radio station during the first Indonesia Water Learning Week held in Jakarta on 24-26 November. Water leaders from central and regional governments responded to the calls. What were the results?
Read MoreSURVEYing/ What Leadership Roles Suit You?
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Manila, Philippines - 16 November 2014. What kind of leader do you want to become? Which leadership roles excite you most? Take the survey and find out. Based on early returns, aspiring leaders among Asian executives are showing an interest to learn how to become a Coach Leader, while the interest of young leaders in university is for the Team Leader, Change Leader and Coach Leader roles. High-school student leaders are showing an interest in the roles of Champion Leader, Thought Leader, and Strategic Leader. On their mastering of six essential leadership abilities, early results show that aspiring leaders are least confident in their ability for Collaborating Across Boundaries. Share the link with your friends and expect more updates soon. Join the conversation by sharing your comments and signing up. We look forward to hearing from you.
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